Censorship In Cartoons: The Cleveland Show

As something people tend to hold the most dearly, culture can be a sensitive topic to discuss and engage in. Often, it is made even more difficult due to issues of the past and the way different cultures influence one another. Moreover, the concepts of cultural assimilation and mainstreaming have brought light on problems regarding the treatment of minority cultures within American culture, specifically with the use of stereotyped imagery and hijacking outside cultural ideas. The issues of cultural stereotyping and assimilation, as seen in South Park, have garnered attention due to the nature of offence and its subjective nature.

Although Television has been censored since its creation throughout the last decade it has started to become more flexible with allowing explicit language. Cable television such as HBO do not have to follow the rules of the FCC because those are channels that customers pay a premium price to be able to access these channel. Other channels like Comedy Central, TNT, or FX do not have the same freedom. Why is that? Comedy Central is known as a channel that never airs anything that children can really watch. South Park is rated MA, for mature audiences. Workaholics is a show that portrays three men’s lives who go through many shenanigans, smoke used, and get into trouble. The FCC should allow these shows to start using more explicit language and to not bleep the words.

6-7. There are several different cultural groups in the United State other than the one represented by the author of the document. These groups might be regional, national, or global in nature. (6) Identify one or more of these cultural groups and (7) explain how they might react to this document.

The house of representatives makes and passes federal laws. They are one of two chambers that creates the U.S legislative branch. The house may even be referred to as “the people house” because it’s representative’s are viewed and based upon the population or amount of people in each state. In this political cartoon, there are two sides one side is labeled “the people's house” which is the outside view of the Capitol building, while the other side shows citizens inside the Capitol building scared. The Capitol building holds meeting's and debates with the electives, however, the scared citizens show a negative connotation because they are not providing respect to the building and what's surrounding them. The ironic part of this cartoon is

Children are also drawn to more mature programs in order to make them feel older and more mature by watching them, which is why the swearing and nudity need to be cut out. I support this view mainly because of an experience I had when I was about five years old. I snuck into the TV room without my parents knowing, and when I was flipping through the channels, I stopped on a channel that was showing the movie Die Hard. Just from watching a short segment of that movie, I quickly learned the “f” word and said it in class the next day. This initial view on censorship is significant because it can prevent children, who are the most influenced by TV, from practicing what they see. They will not learn these words or actions at an early age, like I did, and therefore will not get into trouble in school or teach them to other children. The downside to this stance is that it violates the right of freedom of speech.

My argument is about a family show on television called “The Fosters,” people assume this tv show is not appropriate for all ages.

Dick Cavett, a famous American talk show host, once said, “Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.” Censorship limits free speech, and it is used constantly today. In South Park’s situation, the writers use logic and evidence to express their opinions on controversial issues, and people think that it should be censored. Just because the show uses morally questionable techniques, does not mean that it is useless. In fact, South Park has taught people a lot; it changes our point of view and encourages us to think deeply about the issues at hand while simultaneously making us laugh. For people unfamiliar with South Park, it is an animated comedy television which airs on Comedy Central. The show revolves

Its just like race, there has always been controversy about shows being to white. Even boycotts to make things equal or fair, yet almost every American show has cast full of skinny actors. There is not a character for every person to relate to. It

The language that is used may influence children that are younger than 15 years of age to use the inappropriate language said in the episode such as “Sorry, ranga” or “It's not appropriate because he's homo”. This language used would show children under 15 years of age that it is right to say this inappropriate language to people. Children over 15 may have matured but children younger might may have not. The message of using inappropriate language is called ‘satire’, this means, the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to show and criticize people's stupidity mainly in the situation of current policies and other issues. It is to make the show funny from certain things that the main characters say but in reality we all know that it is true and not quite funny. By putting inappropriate language in the episodes is because I want to show how in the world today, language is used in nearly every school and this is not right.

As an essential part of culture, art is arguably at the core of culture, which naturally leads to the importance of art censorship in America’s Culture Wars. Also, decision for selecting art works which could own fellowship and funding reflected the conflict in politics between different parties and groups. So, the significance of censorship would be questioned and the standard of choosing some outstanding works to receive funds would be attacked in this American Culture war.

Firstly, The Simpsons humor is family oriented and aims to target different generations. For instance, hidden insults and crude jokes that only older generations would understand is not included in the show. Also, the Simpsons includes cultural references that most of the present generations would comprehend, which means that The Simpsons don’t include too much current pop culture and media related that older generations won’t recognize. And even with the adult orientated content, the show is suitable for the whole family to watch, even the young ones, though they won’t grasp some of the political and cultural jokes mentioned in the show.

One can make the argument that the cherishing of material possessions is the leading cause of the problems in today’s world. Most of the world does not care about cars, enormous mansions, or a six-figure income. The culture in America is based on money. The problem is that we as Americans value money over the life of a human being. That exact point shows when America is willing to invade a country for the up keeping of their possessions. If America was aware of how ethnocentric we are, and start to understand others culture standards, other nations would respect us

The times mature content is censored is on TV. Many people watch TV so the possibility of a child watching a mature show is high but it censored to a degree. In Japan, Article 21 of the Japanese Constitution guarantees freedom of expression and prohibits formal censorship. “Freedom of assembly and association as well as speech, press and all other forms of expression are guaranteed. No censorship shall be maintained, nor shall the secrecy of any means of communication be violated” (Japanese Constitution). Videos Games and anime from Japan will have nearly any forms of sexual content be censored with the teams creating product asked to either “add clothes to the characters” or make the female character's “less sexy”. This result of censorship in america has resulted in anime and video games creators hesitate to released materials to america. There's no such thing as "underage" when it comes to art. “These characters are pixels on a screen, not people. Even "of-age" characters are, in actuality, less than one year old when most of us see them; and on the flip side, characters who've been around for a long time, like Lisa Simpson, are in their 20s. The age the character is given in continuity is just a number. It's not representative of anything real.If these were real people, yes, I'd agree it's something that cannot stand. But they're not. And that makes all the difference in the world”

There are many reasons for this but perhaps the most prominent is there is too much sex, violence and bad language on the program. They have done many extreme things that should only be seen by

Since the beginning of time art has been an important aspect to our lives. We learn from it, admire it, and some even relate to it in different ways. Art comes in many different forms it could be sculptures, photography, paintings or music. Some forms of art could be inappropriate and offensive to some people. Should all art be censored? A great deal of controversy has been provoked by this.